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DevOps and cloud: Video series Part 6 – Cloud integration

In this video series we’ve been explaining the notion of a DevOps continuous delivery pipeline and its relationship to cloud technology. As indicated in the introductionwe have split the DevOps end-to-end scenario into seven distinct sections, each aligned with a specific part of the overall flow captured in a video.

The sixth video focuses on cloud integration in more detail. We demonstrate how we provision a new user acceptance test environment inside the cloud based on a predefined blueprint model. The overall process is controlled by the deployment automation system.

The following diagram reflects the parts of the end-to-end scenario that are covered in this section:

IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator relies on so-called cloud patterns—codified templates of your reference architecture. In the video we give you an introduction in the notion of a cloud pattern and show how the definitions are imported into the deployment automation system in order to associate application component definitions with infrastructure requirements so that you have a model defined that describes the overall release stack as a whole.

We cover the following aspects in detail in the video:

· We have the requirement to provision a new user acceptance test (UAT) environment based on a defined cloud pattern.

· We use IBM UrbanCode Deploy to trigger the provisioning of the environment inside the IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator cloud infrastructure.

· The cloud pattern has been imported as a resource template into UrbanCode Deploy.

· The resource template is being used inside an application blueprint in order to assign application components to infrastructure elements.

· The UAT environment is successfully provisioned inside the cloud.

Here’s the video, with explanatory callouts to help you understand what you see:

Now you’ve gone through nearly all of the video sections, but there is still one left where we demonstrate how we use IBM UrbanCode Deploy to stage a new version of the claiming application from a previous, successfully tested environment stage into the newly provisioned UAT environment that we recently provisioned.

Please share your feedback or questions below, and stay tuned for the last installment in the “DevOps and cloud” video series.